February 28, 2018 / Features

Community Board 2 was able to meet on the first day of February, when the weather was cold but bearable, having been unable to meet in the first week of January, when the weather was unbearably cold. One of its first duties was to welcome State More...

The perennial campaign to keep Astoria’s streets safe got another boost from Assembly Member Aravella Simotas, who is calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to remove the giant, flashing billboard it has mounted on the Astor More...

NYS Senator Jose Peralta, the Neighborhood Housing Services of Queens (NHS) and advocates on February 23 called for more tenant protections to tackle increasing rents and the lack of affordable housing units. More...

“Sure-Fire,” will be playing in the Queens World Film Festival, in the Local Express block of eight films from the five boroughs, at 8:15 pm on Friday, March 16 at the Museum of the Moving Image, Redstone Theater. More...

Kaufman Astoria Studios, the historic studio production complex and development in Astoria, issued the following statement on February 22 about the life and career of George Kaufman, the real estate developer and civic leader who was the chair of bot More...

The man largely responsible for the resurrection of New York City’s motion picture production industry, and for the renaissance of the Long Island City neighborhood it calls home, passed away on February 20. More...

The February 4, 2018 Athens rally opposing the SYRIZA government’s policy of allowing FYROM (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) call itself Macedonia is causing a rewriting of history in Greece. Mr. More...

The New York City Police Department is asking the public for assistance with locating and identifying the individuals in the attached photographs wanted in connection to several burglaries that occurred within the confines of the 104th, 108th and 115 More...

The state Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) held a public informational meeting describing the progress of construction on the new and improved version of the Kosciuszko Bridge. In its Queens office at 47-40 21st St., NYSDOT officials conve More...

Port Authority police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a cyclist at LaGuardia Airport. Police said cyclist Steven Morales, 36, was pedaling in the area of Marine Terminal Road and Runway Drive on February 19, at about 7 More...

Congress Member Joseph Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, was joined on February 20 by New York Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) to commemorate Black History Month and honor local leade More...

Council Members Jimmy Van Bramer and Daniel Dromm attended the opening night of the world premiere of the LGBTQ musical comedy “Queens of the Night/Reinas de la Noche,” a bilingual musical about important topics of violence against the LG More...